On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:14AM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Perhaps, if you bothered to see what the so called 40 lines said, you would
Well, being a top-posted message, its a real pain to go _down_ to see the history and then come _up_ again to see what it was meant for!
have realised that it is connected with the question that I have raised in the email. Without having the previous mail "crap" quoted, it is like haveing a blank question. No one will be able to understand the reference of the question without the "crap".
The message did contain a ton of crap ... earlier messages, as well as signatures and mailing list trailers.
As far as top posting is concerned, since there is only one question related to the entire email quoted, your so called love for middle posting is uncalled for. There is no valid place in the quoted email that I can put the question in without it resulted in cutting off the reference to the remaining part of the email.
I can see that you are not interesed in reading the post on mailing strategies, and you havn't really got the hang of need for interleaving references. If you couldn't find a relevant place _below_ the message, it sure means that you should have started a _new_ message and not follow the original. Here are alternatives of writing that same question:
Example 1 - reply to the earlier message, making sure to change the subject line as well
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Cross-posting (was: Redhat 8 CD's)
Body:
On Wed Nov 27 07:15:49 2002 Amish Munshi wrote:
> Was this a cross post? Please do not cross post. > Visit http://www.linuxplaza.org
What is cross-posting??
Saswata.
Example 2 - starting a new message
Subject: cross-posting
Body:
On some other thread, Amish Munshi mentioned something called cross-posting ... what is that?
Saswata.
I don't know how to make things clearer than this.
And it is time you climbed down from your high and mighty pedestal in which you put yourself and give more civil replies.
Contrary-wise! I am not in a high seat ... instead, I am at the receiving end of all this top-posted, unedited "crap".
Incidentally, I dont see the answer to the question I have asked, which is the least I expected from you.
Do consider http://www.google.com/search?q=cross+posting
Sameer.